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Art Institute of Chicago

5,127 works

Watercolor study of three girls in bonnets walking past terracotta pots, with a pink flower sprig and handwritten rhyme below

Study for Tip a Toe, from Marigold Garden

Kate Greenaway, 1885

Self-Portrait

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a girl with a flower basket and a boy in a straw hat walking a small dog.

Two Children with Dog

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Girl with Cat

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Two young girls in white dresses and bonnets sit in a grassy meadow with dandelions, one in a yellow hat with blue ribbons, o

Two Little Girls with Bonnets

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Pencil sketch of a seated girl in a bonnet and long coat holding a large muff.

Seated Girl with Muff

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of a girl in a green dress carrying a basket of eggs past geese and a white dog on a cobbled street.

Girl with Eggs and Geese

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of a curly-haired boy in a blue cap and dark suit seated on a beach with waves behind him.

Eddie at the Seashore

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Hand-colored print of four pink tulips with blue-green leaves, above a printed list of plant names and their meanings.

Decorative Illustration, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers

probably Edmund Evans, published 1884

Hand-colored print of a honeysuckle-like flowering branch with green leaves, above a printed list of flower meanings.

Valerian Through Volkamenia, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers

probably Edmund Evans, published 1884

Pencil sketch of two bonneted figures walking with a small dog past flowers, a picket fence, and a cottage.

Two Figures Walking

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a child holding a bird's nest beside an adult in a bonnet, under bare branches and a wooden fence.

Discovery of Bird's Nest

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a seated woman with several children gathered around her in an interior room.

Group of Children

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor sketch of children and young women in period dress dancing on a sandy beach, one playing a trumpet and another rin

Children Playing on the Beach

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of young women in white gowns pulling ribbons in a parlor, with onlookers and overturned furniture around them.

Frightful Result

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor drawing of women and children in period dress carrying yellow flowers and dancing across a grassy field

Welcome Once Again

Kate Greenaway, 1884

Watercolor interior scene of women in period dress gathered around an infant, with a man peeking from a doorway.

It's Papa Can't Bear it Out of His Sight

Randolph Caldecott, 1872

Pen and ink sketch of a horse stopping sharply in front of a fence while riders follow across an open field.

A Check

Randolph Caldecott, 1869

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a grey koala clinging to a green eucalyptus branch, labeled Koala, on a sketchbook page.

Sketchbook

George Cruikshank, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of bearded men seated on clouds with putti, a figure reaching up from lower left, golden sky.

Saint Peter and other Seated Apostles, with Saint John the Evangelist Below

After Antonio Allegri, called Correggio, n.d.

Loose brown watercolor and graphite sketch of a standing nude woman with flowing drapery, signed by Auguste Rodin.

Standing Nude with Draperies

Auguste Rodin, n.d.

Watercolor and pencil study of a reclining nude figure with an extended arm, in soft brown washes on cream paper.

Sunset

Auguste Rodin, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a seated nude figure with arm outstretched against faint radiating lines.

Leaving the Earth

Auguste Rodin, 1900/05

Portrait Head of a Man in Profile

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of muscular Hercules seated on rocks beside Cacus, with a putto and clouds above.

Hercules and Cacus

Attributed to Sebastiano Galeotti, n.d.

Saint Bernardino of Siena Preaching from an Open Book

Sienese Italian, 1570/90

Pencil study of tall tree trunks and scribbled foliage on pale paper, by Georges Seurat, 1884.

Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)

Georges Seurat, 1884

Monochrome forest scene with a man by a pond, large boulders, a winding path and misty trees in ochre tones.

Pond at the Edge of the Wood

Adolphe Appian, 1862

Brown ink and wash drawing of Diana and sleeping Endymion under a tree, with a flying cupid and a dog.

Diana and Endymion

probably after Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a grand festival hall with coffered ceiling, marble columns, and gilded chairs in perspective.

Festival Hall From a Theatrical Scene

Attributed to Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, c. 1719